Episcaphium

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Scaphidiinae
Tribus: Scaphiini
Genus: Episcaphium
Species (12): E. callosipenne – E. catenatum – E. changchini – E. dabashanum – E. grande – E. haematoides – E. saucineum – E. semirufum – E. strenuum – E. unicolor – E. watanabei – E. zhuxiaoyui
Name

Episcaphium Lewis, 1893: 290

Type species: Episcaphium semirufum Lewis, 1893, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Phenoscaphium Achard, 1922: 35 [synonym in Leschen & Löbl, 1995: 450]
Type species: Phenoscaphium callosipenne Achard, 1922, fixed by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Lewis, G. 1893. On some Japanese Scaphidiidae. Annals and magazine of natural history (6)11: 288–294. [original description: p. 290]

Additional references

Sheng, C. & Gu, F.K. 2009. Two new species of the genus Episcaphium Lewis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) of China. Zootaxa 2325: 35–38. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.
Tang, L., Tu, Y-Y. & Li, L-Z. 2016. Notes on the genus Episcaphium Lewis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) with description of a new species from China. ZooKeys 595: 49-55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.595.8784. Reference page.